Jonathan Orchard is a musician and founding member of the post-punk band Jonah and the Wail. We talk about his musical career in the 80s and 90s and about his ...

Dr. David Luke is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at that University of Greenwich where he studies the psychology of exceptional human experiences. In the podcast we discuss his research ...

Rachel Fulton Brown is an Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Chicago where she works on the history of Christianity with a focus on devotion to the ...

Prof. Roy Baumeister is a psychologist who has written prolifically on subjects including sexual difference, free will, the nature of evil and the nature of the self. Here we talk ...

Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American poet and essayist who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has recently published his second book of aphorisms, Where Epics Fail. We discuss ...

Eli Serabeth is a professional tarot reader and a kabbalist. In this episode he explains his heterodox worldview and how it alienated him from mainstream academia where he did a ...

We discuss the changing face of the culture wars since Jacoby's 1987 book The Last Intellectuals, the decline of the left's utopian imagination, and his forthcoming work on the concept ...

Thomas Moore has written numerous books on spiritual topics, including Care of the Soul, Dark Nights of the Soul, and Care of the Soul in Medicine. Here we discuss the ...

Keith Gessen is a Russian-American writer, translator, and co-editor of the magazine n+1. In the first half of this podcast he discusses his new novel, A Terrible Country, about a ...

In this episode we discuss Professor Main's recent book, The Rise of the Alt-Right, in which he sketches a genealogy of alt-right thought, and places it in the broader context ...

Gary Lachman discusses his journey from playing bass with Blondie and Iggy Pop to becoming a historian of the occult and a biographer of people like Swedenborg, Madame Blavatsky and ...

Tobias Churton has written four books about Aleister Crowley, as well as numerous other works on topics including Gnosticism, Gurdjieff, and the history of occultism. We talk about Crowley's notion ...

Ken Wilber is the world's most well-known exponent of Integral Theory. In this episode he describes his intellectual development, discusses his theory of the evolution of consciousness in the context ...

John Waters is a writer and journalist whose writing career has followed the profound changes Ireland has undergone since the 1980s. We discuss what has happened to the media, the ...

Prof. Richard Tarnas is the author of Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. In this episode we discuss topics including Jungian depth psychology and astrology, and their ...

This episode features two of my Russian colleagues, Maxim Alyukov and Natalia Savalyeva, and is our first serious political conversation despite having worked together for 18 months, in which they ...

Dr Kirk Meighoo, former Trinidadian senator, and author of Politics in a Half Made Society, discusses the history of modern Caribbean politics and his political odyssey from student radical to ...

Eugene Pustoshkin is editor of Eros and Kosmos magazine. He is a highly articulate interpreter and practitioner of Integral Theory who has translated several of Ken Wilber's books into Russian. ...

In this episode Prof. Michael Rectenwald of NYU discusses his life in the academy after he left an advertising career in search of more meaningful work, his ultimate disillusionment with ...